Check out this lovely piece of work by Jan V. Henkel and the AU team in collaboration with us at SDU and colleagues at AAU. Congrats Jan!!!! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Jan discovered the tiny microbes that make their home on ferromagnetic particles in the SMTZ of Baltic Sea sediments! 🦠 🧲 🦠

Desulfatiglans-related bacteria associated with conductive mineral particles in marine subsurface sediments | mBio

Acetate is a central intermediate in the anaerobic breakdown of organic matter. In Baltic Sea sediments at and below the sulfate–methane transition zone, we observed acetate oxidation to carbon dioxid...

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Wait, what? Reversing #methanogenesis to produce #ethanol? #microbiology #methanogens #archaea #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky www.nature.com/articles/s43...

💡 See this nice work by Tetyana Gilevska, exploring how anoxic sediment microbiomes break down naproxen (a widely used painkiller) in coastal areas impacted by wastewater discharge. A good example of how microbiomes at the land–sea interface help mitigate the footprint of pharmaceutical pollution.

#MicrobialEcology : Previously unknown microorganisms use naturally occurring conductive particles to produce methane in coastal sediments @ameliarotaru.bsky.social @nordcee.bsky.social #metagenomics

Hidden microbial network could drive methane production in the seafloor

New discovery: Previously unknown microorganisms use naturally occurring conductive particles to produce methane in coastal sediments. This overlooked mechanism may help explain new ways how greenhouse gases form beneath the seafloor.

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#MicrobialEcology : Previously unknown microorganisms use naturally occurring conductive particles to produce methane in coastal sediments @ameliarotaru.bsky.social @nordcee.bsky.social #metagenomics

Hidden microbial network could drive methane production in the seafloor

New discovery: Previously unknown microorganisms use naturally occurring conductive particles to produce methane in coastal sediments. This overlooked mechanism may help explain new ways how greenhouse gases form beneath the seafloor.

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8 more days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position. Please repost! The position offers a lot of freedom to test new ideas about how archaea and bacteria communicate & sense the extracellular environment.

Amelia Rotaru@ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Excited to share our paper in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social We explore how microbes can simultaneously use oxygen and alternative electron acceptors, reshaping how we think about respiration. We also discuss the evolutionary context and how it can be studied. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Breathing both ways: simultaneous aerobic–anaerobic respiration in microbes

Microorganisms have historically been classified as obligate aerobes or anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, or microaerophiles, reflecting differences i…

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MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life Guest Editors: Davide Pisani Anja Spang #evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

A newly described microbial network in coastal sediments uses conductive particles to facilitate methane production, highlighting an overlooked process that may influence carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions. doi.org/hbtnxt

Overlooked microbial network may drive methane production in the seafloor

Deep below the surface in coastal sediments, microorganisms use conductive particles as tiny natural "wires" to exchange electrons.

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Genome-centric metagenomics reveals electroactive syntrophs in a conductive particle-dependent consortium from coastal sediments www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Genome-centric metagenomics reveals electroactive syntrophs in a conductive particle-dependent consortium from coastal sediments - Nature Communications

In this study, the authors provide a genomic blueprint for a conductive particle-dependent environmental consortium from coastal sediments and use long-read metagenomics to show how syntrophic partner...

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Glad to see our paper published in Nature Communications We discovered how novel marine microorganisms interact via geoconductors to produce methane. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First post here 🙂 Not long ago we published "Membrane changes during syntrophic interactions of an archaeal–bacterial coculture". Turns out their membrane changes in the process to adapt to this partnership. Always fascinating to see how dynamic these systems are. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

💫 I am recruiting a postdoctoral candidate for a 3-year position starting in summer 2026 to work on the role of extracellular RNA (eRNA) in interspecies interactions.

📣We are recruiting! Postdoc position open in marine #eDNA / #sedaDNA in Copenhagen as part of the Arctic NordForsk #PHATE Research Project. See the link for details 👇 and get in touch if you want to know more. Deadline is on the 6th April 🌊 🧬 Glaciology and Climate - #GEUS #HAB #phycotoxins

Postdoc in marine environmental DNA/ sedimentary ancient DNA

The Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic postdoctoral resea

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The Microbe Atlas database paper is *finally* published! Out in @cellpress.bsky.social today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems

Environmental DNA sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of microbial diversity and ecology. Microbiomes have now been sequenced across the e…

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Today marks the official start date of the Microbial Electrochemical Methanation Initiative (alias Prometheus), a strategic 50 mil DKK grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded to us at SDU, together with partners at SDU NanoSYD, DTU (BRIGHT), AU (CORC, Biology), TBI, and Wageningen University.

Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social Application deadline on 15 March 2026 👇 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Check out our lead review paper in Frontiers in Science, expertly led by Uwe Schröder and featuring really great co-authors from all over the globe... on new strategies to turn waste into value. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Frontiers | Waste to value: microbial electrochemical technologies for sustainable water, material, and energy cycles

Global wastewater production exceeds 359 billion m3 annually, of which only 52% is treated, mostly in expensive and resource-consuming processes. Microbial e...

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📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Hiring: two 3-year Postdoc positions We’re looking for postdocs who can design and run directed laboratory evolution experiments in microbial communities under electrochemical stimulation, and link adaptations to performance using shotgun meta-omics.

Two postdoctoral positions (3-year) in Experimental Evolution of Methanogenic Microbiomes in Bioelectrochemical Systems

Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

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Come work with us on #darkoxygen as part of the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. It is an amazing opportunity to get up to 3 years of funding. Deadlines are March 1. and November 1. Happy to discuss your ideas! Details here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... @mblscience.bsky.social #astrobiology

14 more days left to apply for these two PhD positions in my team. Please share with your network!

Amelia Rotaru@ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.

14 more days left to apply for these two postdoc positions in my team. Please share with your network!

Amelia Rotaru@ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We have several open positions in the field of soil C cycling in #permafrost ecosystems @uni-hamburg.de Technician/research associate (fate of permafrost C): shorturl.at/xEiG7 Postdoc (land-surface modeling & C-climate feedbacks): shorturl.at/pjY0K PhD (microbial GHG turnover): shorturl.at/hfhwX

The metallome of Methanosarcina barkeri during electron uptake from acathode https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.14.705942v1

Have a look at our new preprint — and the first first-author paper from my recently graduated PhD student Abdalluh Jabaley 🎓 The metallome of Methanosarcina barkeri during electron uptake from a cathode ⚡️🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...